As a small school with strong community values, we know and care for every pupil as an individual. All local pupils are welcome in this school. We do not have a selection process and we strive to meet the needs of each member of our school community, celebrating diversity and always striving for equality in our school family and the wider world. Our ethos encourages mutual respect and support to enable every pupil to make the greatest personal, social and academic progress during their time with us, preparing them for successful careers and fulfilling lives.
A relentless drive for the best academic progress for each pupil sits comfortably alongside the wider curriculum where values education embraces citizenship, pupil voice, charity, and community work. This term we are developing new partnerships with a local care home for the elderly and Trident Reach the People Charity alongside well-established links like the Stechford Food Bank. Charity work raises over £6000 every year. A pupil pilot group has started planning our route through the UNICEF Rights, Respecting Responsibilities Mark and Hodge Hill Girls’ School Thinktank are ready to begin their work.
In academic studies, there are personalized pathways in learning to meet the needs of individuals and groups of pupils. Lessons use a blend of modern technology, traditional teaching, and individual support in every area of the curriculum. We understand from our self-evaluation that differentiation and challenge in lessons are of paramount importance to rates of individual pupil progress. The quality of marking, feedback, pupil response, and homework support the pace of learning – these areas have been and continue to be areas of focus for the school.
Here at Hodge Hill Girls' School, we genuinely value and strive to enhance working partnerships with our families, feeder schools, and our local community. This partnership is essential in raising standards and achievement, every member of our family has a role to play in raising the aspirations of all our pupils to ensure we are "Educating Tomorrow's Women Today".
Our aim is Pupils, Families, Staff, and Governors working together in consultation to help every pupil make expected progress, to help many pupils make better than expected progress, and to help some pupils to make exceptional progress by:
- Ensuring pupils attend for a minimum of 96% and are not late.
- Rewarding personal endeavor and community commitment.
- Helping pupils overcome challenges in their work and behavior.
- Supporting physical health and emotional resilience.
- Developing teaching and curriculum for high-quality learning.
- Developing the site, building, and resources for best value 21st-century learning.
Education should help pupils respond to the opportunities and challenges of the rapidly changing world in which we live and work. In particular, they need to be prepared as individual citizens, to respond to the changing pattern of work and leisure, the expansion of communication systems, and the increasingly global nature of our world. In this context, we have developed a balanced curriculum framework that allows a flexible but coherent approach to study for all pupils. We are committed to raising the achievements, attainments, and aspirations of everyone in our school community and address equal opportunities by carefully considering the diverse needs of our young women about ability and cultural background.
The core purpose of Secondary Education is to enable young people to learn and achieve. We work with determination to ensure that literacy, numeracy, Information Communication Technology, and thinking skills progress from Primary School and are integrated into the basic skills curriculum for all pupils. Curriculum extension and enrichment are key elements of the opportunities offered within the day, as an integrated part of our Curriculum and Achievement Days and in Out of Hours Clubs and Teams.
We have high expectations for our pupils, which are communicated through our monitoring and target-setting processes. Regular individual and group reviews and assessments provide information regarding progress and help us to review together what is learned and taught, and provide intervention should this be necessary. Pupil progress is reviewed regularly throughout the academic year.
